Movies Like You and I
If you liked You and I (2011), a drama and romance movie directed by Roland Joffé, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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High Art (1998)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceWhen Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in…
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Sugar Baby (2024)
★ 7/10Also romance and dramaLove comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?
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Gia (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and dramaGia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
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Ashes in the Snow (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceThe coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her…
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A Star Is Born (1976)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceHas-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.
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Sid and Nancy (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceJanuary 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his…
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
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The Runaways (2010)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaJoan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the…
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Disobedience (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceNew York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction…
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John and Mary (1969)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceJohn and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
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Newness (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaIn contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
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The Doors (1991)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceBen Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact…
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Factory Girl (2006)
★ 6/10Also dramaIn the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and…
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Rocketman (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
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54 (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceWhen the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, he not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar…
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and dramaThe stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with…
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Intimacy (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and dramaFailed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows…
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Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceAn erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to…